The arrest on Monday of a scrap dealer with over 200 cooking pots, saucepans and coal pots at Gomoa Ojobi in the Central Region has led to intensified calls for the banishment of a group of young men parading as scrap dealers in the community.

The Ojobi District Police Command arrested Mumuni Abubakar, said to be a scrap dealer, following complaints of theft against him, with a search in his abode yielding over 200 cooking pots, saucepans, and coal pots, most of which have deliberately been pulverised.

Women who heard of the arrest and followed up to the police station identified their silverware, with most of them claiming their pots were whisked away while on fire cooking the family’s meal. Indeed some of the pots had not been cleaned yet of the dishes they contained.

In an interview with Adom News’ Seth Kofi Agyei, some of the women said they were preparing banku, rice, Indomie, porridge, saabo, fried yam and others when the suspect managed to whisk the utensils away.

The over 200 cooking pots, coal pots, and headpans have been seized by the Ojobi District Police.

Some of the victims lamented how they had fallen prey on multiple occasions, with the utensils and other kitchen gear getting missing day in day out.

Justice Soldier, an opinion leader, called on the authorities to banish the scrap dealers from the community before members take the law into their own hands and deal with them because they are tired of them.

The women are also calling on the police to beef up security in Ojobi since their businesses are collapsing due to increased theft by scrap dealers.